I think these are probably already in SSDs. The MacBooks with PCIe SSDs already have read/write speeds of approximately 1.4GB/s for the 512GB part.
The price should come down eventually. Until then, I can see these being the basis for an extremely exclusive ipod.
What's the use case for 700 MB/sec in an iPod? Listening to 100 songs in one second?
Apple products aren't about practicality, it's about being able to beat anyone who doesn't have one over the head with yours in a socially acceptable manner.
Well, i can see the benefit of syncing your entire musiccollection in minutes, and not hours.
That said, do ipods stille exist?
Trying to sync over 30gb of music and podcasts can take a while but usually only have to do it once every few years.
It's not the wait to synch that bothers me, it's all that clicking confirming I want to download all 60G I have in the cloud. Ooops, I only have 40G on the pod. Error! Error!
Stuff like this will be the end of them.
Maybe not as fast as a traditional SSD, but enough density to put 30TB in a 2.5" case at better than HDD speed.